Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is shaping up to be one of the most robust and expansive entries in the series. While already set to introduce new gameplay elements to the series, Odyssey is also set to get a whole host of post-launch content. Season pass owners will also receive two, full story arcs and a fully remastered edition of Assassin’s Creed 3, which will also include a remastered edition of the PlayStation Vita game Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation. The first Odyssey season pass story arc will

Note on spoilers: This article references the ending of 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot and 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider. Shadow of the Tomb Raider has many qualities and many faults, but its biggest problem is an absence of Lara Croft. I want to dig deeper into the story, focusing on protagonist Lara Croft as a character and as a human being. In 2013’s franchise reboot Tomb Raider, Lara Croft is a young woman, who finds herself struggling to cope with the demands of meeting her ambitions to be an a

PUBG Mobile players can finally get their hands on Sanhok, the game’s newest map, thanks to Thursday’s September update. The map has been available to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players on Windows PC and Xbox One for months, but this is the first time it will be available on iOS and Android. Along with the release of the Sanhok map for PUBG Mobile, this update also contains everything that was originally released with Sanhok for both the PC and Xbox One versions of the game, including the new

There’s a Washington Mystics t-shirt I’ve been eyeballing for my original player’s road outfit in NBA Live 19’s “The One” career mode. In NBA Live 19, it can’t. NBA Live 19 has a much more streamlined approach in reply. But NBA 2K19 remains as blatantly pay-to-win (or, in multiplayer, even compete) as ever, and it’s been able to do this partly because NBA Live was a nonentity as an alternative. It has long presented a steep learning curve to new users where NBA Live is much more accommodating.

The end of season 5 of Fortnite is upon us. Yes, it was a wild ride, but we’re finally at week 10, and with it brings another tricky treasure hunt challenge. The objective: “Search between a covered bridge, waterfall and 9th green.” You probably already guessed about where you should be looking, but we’ll nail it down for you. Specifically the 9th green of Lazy Links. Since this is the last week of season 5, you’ve got just one more week to complete all your challenges.

And it landed on a new investment fund called Kowloon Nights. The fundThe idea for what would become Kowloon Nights originated a few years ago, when Alexis Garavaryan was working on the ID@Xbox program, managing Microsoft’s investments into independent games. Team members at Too Kyo Games say that working with Kowloon Nights is not especially different from working with a publisher. For Ueda’s game, Kowloon is only funding the project to get it off the ground, at which point the team will attemp

Which brings us to Spider-Man on the PlayStation 4, a game that is strangely brave with its story and how it introduces its characters. His relationship with Mary Jane Watson is more or less over. Mary Jane is a reporter for the Daily Bugle. Spider-Man on the PlayStation 4 has its own story to tell, at its own pace. It realizes that being Spider-Man is a much more interesting story than becoming Spider-Man.

But with the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout mode beta, which opened on PlayStation 4 this week to acclaim, Treyarch seems to be taking some cues from some of the most popular online games’ playbooks. By responding to which balance changes both the team and players find necessary, Treyarch has entered into a relationship with players. Beyond serving as an assurance that small, frequent balance changes will prevent the meta from getting too stale, Treyarch’s early changes also seem like a good

The first trailer for Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina promises a darker take on the teenage witch than we’ve seen before. Netflix picked up Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but it was originally intended to be a companion series to Riverdale on the CW. Jon Goldwater, executive producer of Riverdale and CEO of Archie Comics, said there are no direct plans for a crossover just yet, despite references to Sabrina’s town of Greendale made on Riverdale. Netflix has ordered at least two seasons

But don’t worry, the last moments of the episode promised the coming crossover with the appearance of one Michael Langdon. Langdon is the son of Murder House characters Tate Langdon (Evan Peters) and Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton), conceived when the former raped the latter and born in the finale of Murder House. He’s sent from the Cooperative, the mysterious organization that has wrangled up “worthy candidates” to put in the apocalypse safe houses. And we still don’t know how the Murder House g

OpTic Gaming will not start the Dota 2 competitive season with a roster, the organization officially revealed. In short, he says that while OpTic was looking for a roster, there were multiple opportunities that failed to materialize. In addition, they preferred “a team that can win” over just having any roster at all. The Dota 2 portion of Maelk’s main post is below:In regards to Dota 2 and a roster for the 2018/2019 season, I am afraid I have some disappointing news. Maelk continued to take que

Old School Musical, a rhythm game for the Nintendo Switch and Windows PC, goes all in by not only imitating the look of classic video games, but also the soundtracks that accompanied them. Developer La Moutarde enlisted the aid of modern chiptune artists to craft 50 tracks for Old School Musical to do exactly that, and it’s the best part of a very uneven game. Playing through all those tracks does require you to get through Old School Musical’s story, which has a style of humor that is either ch

A Nintendo Switch system update on Sept. 18, coinciding with the launch of Nintendo Switch Online, will lock Switch user profiles’ to their linked Nintendo Accounts, the company said in an email to owners this morning. It will be impossible to unlink these Switch user profiles from that Nintendo Account later. Nintendo has provided instructions for how to confirm Switch users are linked to the appropriate Nintendo Account. Unlinking user accounts from Nintendo Accounts will only be possible unti

As Nintendo fans speculate ahead of today’s Direct presentation, don’t forget that the Switch eShop received its regular weekly update as per usual. While the list may not be full of the big surprises Nintendo likely has in store for us this evening, there’s one game absolutely worth your attention. Undertale is out next week on Nintendo Switch, completing the trifecta of console ports for the unforgettable role-playing game. Need a game to tide you over on Switch until one of those fancy titles

Mutant: Year Zero is a game that’s difficult to categorize. The Mutant: Year Zero property itself, currently owned by Cabinet, is based on a much older tabletop role-playing franchise simply known as Mutant. Characters will evolve over time and, just as in modern-day XCOM, players will likely become attached to them. Where Firaxis’ XCOM gives players access to an endless stream of fresh recruits, Mutant: Year Zero will only have five characters to play with. “We all fall in love with our XCOM ch

In Stephen King’s It, local historian Mike Hanlon poses a question to both himself and the audience: “Can an entire city be haunted? Haunted as some houses are supposed to be haunted?”Setting, specifically the small-town kind, is key to Stephen King. One of those people is Sam Shaw, the co-creator of Castle Rock, alongside his creative partner Dustin Thomason. “We both discovered Stephen King, like a lot of people do, at a slightly too tender age,” he told Polygon. “For me and Dusty [Thomason],

World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, is all about returning to the roots of Horde against Alliance. note: This post contains spoilers for the Kul Tiras and Zandalari campaigns in Battle for Azeroth.] But the core of the game, that red versus blue content, it’s good to come back to that. That’s hard to do!”After 14 years, the biggest problem for Blizzard is to keep players engaged. “I find it’s far too difficult to come up to the line of ‘too awesome’ slowly and then push for

Forza Horizon 4, which launches Oct. 2 on Windows PC and Xbox One, has a demo available on both platforms today. Developers said it will give players a sampling of the four seasons of weather the game will offer. Set in the U.K., where the weather is always lovely every season of the year, Forza Horizon 4 will also offer a James Bond-themed car pack at launch. Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games did not say how many or what kind of cars would be available in the Forza Horizon 4 demo. Forza Hori

Henry Cavill is hanging up his Superman cape and departing Warner Bros.’ DC Cinematic Universe, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Cavill has been outspoken about the highs and lows of playing Superman in the DCU, arguing Warner Bros.’ cinematic universe is in need of a massive tonal shift. Cavill has said that although the franchise “has made money, it hasn’t been a critical success.”“We can start telling the stories in the way they need to be told,” Cavill told Rake Magazine. It’s unclear ho

The trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s new six-part Western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs shoots from the hip with piercing meta-commentary: “People are so easily distracted,” says a mustachioed man who’s buttering up the audience. People can’t get enough of them because people connect the stories to themselves, I suppose, and we all love hearing about ourselves so long as the people in the stories are us … but not us.”Perhaps we are all Buster Scruggs? Netflix describes The Balla